Collections/September 2025

Documentaries by Alain Kassanda

One of the most exciting emerging voices in African cinema, Congolese French filmmaker Alain Kassanda makes immersive, thought-provoking documentaries that connect the lived experiences of everyday people to larger social and political questions. Turning his observant camera on both his grandparents ( Colette and Justin ), whose lives were shaped by Belgian colonialism, and on Nigeria’s younger generation ( Trouble Sleep , Coconut Head Generation ), Kassanda crafts eloquent, dynamic, politically engaged films that question existing power structures and offer a vital corrective to reductive images of contemporary Africa.

3 films